I am very new to html. Can any one of you explain to a layman that what is a <div> command for?<!--content-->It's the DIV element and not the DIV command. The distinction is important. In HTML we describe how the different parts of the page relate to each other. The P element designates a paragraph, the CITE element designates a citation and the DIV element designates a generic block level division. See <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#edef-DIV">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#edef-DIV</a><!-- m -->. can use the div to create "areas" on your page, such as menus and text. These can then be styled separately. They can also be positioned in various ways.<br />
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The div tag has become essential when moving away from layouts that depended on tables.<br />
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You can also make them hidden.<!--content-->There's nothing special about the DIV element and CSS; whatever you can do with a DIV you can do with any other block level element. It's just that the DIV can contain other block level elements.<!--content-->
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The div tag has become essential when moving away from layouts that depended on tables.<br />
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You can also make them hidden.<!--content-->There's nothing special about the DIV element and CSS; whatever you can do with a DIV you can do with any other block level element. It's just that the DIV can contain other block level elements.<!--content-->